Culture and Wellbeing
Guilt felt by working parents is a type of unhelpful “persecutory guilt,” writes Emily Singler, VMD, that can be avoided and healed through releasing unrealistic expectations and shifting responsibilities and priorities.
Practice Management
AAHA’s white paper “Stay, Please” has interactive ways to explore the nuances of who’s planning to leave veterinary practices and why. Associate DVMs and credentialed techs have the same top 6 retention and attrition factors. Can you guess what they are?
Culture and People
Veterinary practices can support employees who are parents by implementing nongendered policies to balance time off and other parenting considerations for fathers and nonbirthing parents.
Culture and People
Approximately 1 in 5 people have a neurodivergent condition. This diversity brings unique strengths and opportunities for self-care and allyship in how we work with teammates and clients who have bipolar disorder, autism, ADHD, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other forms of neurodiversity.
Whether it’s a 5-star raving review or a 1-star rant, online reviews need professional, concise replies to maintain your practice’s good reputation. AI tools like ChatGPT can help you build templates, craft replies in sensitive situations, and come up with new ways to say thanks for the positive reviews too.
“Balancing” work and life can feel impossible for working parents. Emily Singer, VMD, writes that instead of trying to balance work with life, flexibility and self-care are better goals.
Practice Management
Do you know what keeps your happy employees happy and what’s driving the unhappy ones away? AAHA’s white paper “Stay, Please,” includes interactive graphics that break down the reasons people stay in vet med (retention) and why they leave (attrition).
Practice Management
How you increase employee retention might be practice-wide or it might focus on specific job roles where you see the highest turnover. AAHA’s “Stay, Please” white paper has the data to inform your next move, regardless of which strategy you choose.
Practice Management
A content calendar makes your veterinary practice’s marketing strategy flow like clockwork—but who has the time to put it together? AI tools can fast track the process and help generate ideas for social media posts.
Behavior and Training
The Chinese philosopher Mengzi believed that people are inherently good, while his counterpart, Xunzi, said that people are born bad. They agreed that moral teachings were the key to keeping people on the good side. What do Chinese philosophy and this issue of Trends have to do with each other? Read on to find out!
